World Heavy Oil Awards

2016 Award Winners

NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN FOR 2017!

When it comes to the business of energy, technology plays a fundamental role. The World Heavy Oil Awards serve to reflect and celebrate the ever-changing technologies in the oil and gas industry. Different companies and countries from around the world will have the opportunity to showcase their achievements in technological innovations and advancements through the Awards. [email protected].

How to Submit

STEP ONE

Pick a Category

Community Engagement

New Technologies in Heavy Oil

Drilling Excellence

Young Professional

Lifetime Achievement

Service Company of The Year

E&P Company of The Year

Community Engagement

STEP TWO

Develop Responses

Review the judging criteria for the category you are submitting for

Develop responses to each criteria point

Ensure each response is within 500 words per criteria point

STEP THREE

Prepare company files

Include a 100 word summary of your submission (to be used if you win the award)

Have your company boilerplate ready for submission

Ensure to have a .jpeg and .eps version of your logo ready for submission

All uploaded files must have your company name in the file name

STEP FOUR

Prepare supporting documents

Ensure to have relevant project photos, third party references, or case studies (under two pages in length) ready for submission

If you chose to upload more than one file in this area, please used a zipped file

Award Categories

In conjunction with the World Heavy Oil Congress Technical Committee, Best Paper will be awarded to a technical speaker who excels among their peers and presents the highest scored full paper at the Congress. Nominations are not required for this category.

The community engagement category recognizes an industry organization’s efforts in continuing to the betterment of the wide community in which it operates.Applicants will need to demonstrate the value their project has added to the community and show exceptional corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies. Projects must have been completed or put in place prior to December 15, 2016.

Summary of project, identifying main objectives

Identification of the need and value of the project to the community

Describe specific, measurable targets and progress

Showcase of community’s long-term betterment and noticeable improvement due to the initiative

Integration of the initiative into a community, measuring its positive business impact, contribution and strategic link to company’s core business

The new technologies category recognizes a major advancement, rather than incremental iterations of current technologies, and is conscious of technologies aimed to reduce costs (capital and/or operational), streamline operations, reduce environmental impact and improve health & safety standards.

Summary of project, identifying main objectives

Identification of a major technological advance and what challenges were overcome to achieve this

Original concept and application of the initiative

Innovation benefits for society and the heavy oil industry in case study format

Identify achieved impact, including the environmental contribution of the project

Future plans for research, development, and commercial potential of the initiative

This category recognizes organizations providing drilling solutions to the heavy oil industry. Contractors, service providers and operators involved in the drilling process are eligible to submit. Organizations will be judged on the strength of their performance where safety, environmental commitment, and commercial goals are achieved.

The upcoming youth category recognizes a young professional under the age of 35 that has already shown an aspiring contribution to the industry and makes a valuable contribution to the company(s) they work with.

Describe individual’s demonstration of strong leadership skills

Identify the individual’s technical contribution within their field of work

The service company of the year category recognizes the organizations providing multiple heavy oil services to operators. Successful oilfield service companies will be able to demonstrate that timeliness, cost control and overall value for money have been delivered by a single company for its clients across a range of disciplines.

Identification of organizations multidisciplinary services

Provide list of top clients in the last 12 months

Demonstration of environmental impact mitigation strategies

Outline completed campaigns that have demonstrated game-changing benefits to clients

Awards Procedure

Coherent awards procedure contains three transparent stages of all entries’ evaluation and is led by the Judging Panel.

STAGE ONE: NOMINATIONS

Nomination forms are open for entry. The deadline to submit is December 15, 2016.

STAGE TWO: PRELIMINARY REVIEW

Preliminary stage of the evaluation process, in which the Judging Panel produce a short list of 3 nominees for each award. Each member of the Judging Panel will independently assess the entries.

STAGE THREE: FINAL REVIEW

Each member of the Judging Panel will be invited to discuss the shortlist of nominees at the official winners meeting in Calgary, AB. The Judges will meet to choose a winner in each category, which will later be announced at the World Heavy Oil Awards Gala.

Official Independent Advisor

The Official Independent Advisor will provide an impartial third party tally of the Judging Panel’s scores. In the Preliminary Review Stage the Advisor will take the scores (on a scale of 1 – 5, 1 being excellent, 5 being poor) from each Judge and tally a final score for each submission. The final scores will then be used to determine the short list of five final nominees.

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